Cancer outreach worker Bri McNulty, 23, was one of 750 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was terminated abruptly over email in mid-February, amid a slew of federal workforce dismissals.
On Tuesday, McNulty got an equally surprising email hiring her back. She was one of an unknown number of probationary employees at the CDC to be asked back in a perfunctory email.
McNulty was part of the agency’s elite Public Health Associate Program, assigned to the Iowa Cancer Consortium, a small group working on statewide efforts to combat what is the country’s second-highest cancer rate.
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